I almost touched the moon

Chapter 147 You are my sun

"Songsong, what is the most beautiful scenery you have ever seen?"

"In the Atacama Desert in Chile, there is a place called El Valle de La Luna, which translates to Moon Valley in Chinese. I saw the most beautiful moonrise there."

The moment they drove into Moon Valley, Cheng Che's most profound impression of the place was its desolation.

The Gobi Desert is barren and full of traces of erosion by wind and sand. The breeze blows up the dust and there is not even a trace of life.

The setting sun dyed the desert pink and orange. Sitting on the rocks and looking into the distance, you can also see the snow-capped mountains in the distance. The dots of green under the snow-capped mountains are the only decoration in this world.

If it weren't for the sight of snow-capped mountains and clouds, Cheng Che would have thought that he had really arrived on the moon.

"Ache." Wen Song called him, and when he turned around, she smiled like a flower, "Is this your first time in Chile?"

She was dressed very casually today, just a white vest, black jeans, and a pair of Martin boots. She also wore a shawl to protect herself from the sun and keep warm. Her long hair fell on her shoulders, and she wore a baseball cap, looking particularly casual and relaxed.

She didn't wear any jewelry except the ring on her left ring finger. Cheng Che looked at the ring and smiled unconsciously.

"Yes." Cheng Che nodded, "Because it's too far, and there's nowhere else I wanted to go before. Where's my sister?"

"I've been here many times." Wen Song pointed to several observatories in the empty desert not far away. "ESO has built many observatories in the Atacama Desert, so I came here several times during my undergraduate study trip. It's right there. If you're interested, I can take you there."

Cheng Che nodded after listening to her, looked at her and asked, "So sister came here specially to accompany me?"

"Of course." Wen Song naturally grabbed his right hand and played with it while speaking, "Because you said you wanted to see the stars, but there is no place better for stargazing than here."

"This place looks a lot like the moon." Cheng Che looked at the desolate scene in front of him and couldn't help but think of the photo of the moon.

Wen Song nodded and said, "This place is called Moon Valley because it looks like the moon. But fortunately, there aren't that many meteorite impacts, and there isn't that big a temperature difference between day and night."

Cheng Che couldn't help laughing after hearing her words. She would always become serious suddenly when she was romantic. After so long, he was still a little uncomfortable with her lack of understanding of romance.

As the sun set, a new moon slowly appeared on the horizon. The incomplete crescent hung above the distant snow-capped mountains, making the Gobi Desert look even more desolate. Even the temperature gradually dropped.

"Moonrise." Wen Song said, "My tattoo was inspired by this."

When Cheng Che lowered his head, he happened to see her tattoo, a crescent moon on the skyline, but with an extra touch of blue and white waves.

"But your tattoo has ocean waves."

"Because the Gobi Desert is too difficult to draw!" Wen Song laughed, "I tried many times, but I couldn't draw it well, so I just changed it to ocean waves. Isn't there a poem that goes, 'The moon rises over the sea?'"

Of course, Cheng Che looked at her and smiled and nodded. The bright moon was rising over the sea, and they were all far apart at the same time. Wasn't this his yearning for them?

Cheng Che gently stroked the tattoo and kissed her forehead softly, "I'll help you draw it."

"But I don't want to change it. It hurts." Wen Song shook his head.

Cheng Che said to her again: "How about I also get a tattoo on my collarbone similar to your sister's, but change the waves into a desert?"

"Absolutely not!" Wen Song stopped him immediately, "Ah Che, I can't accept my boyfriend having tattoos."

"Why?" Cheng Che had no interest in tattoos at first, but he thought the tattoo on her body was really beautiful, unique and sexy.

"Because it's very non-mainstream and feels vulgar." Wen Song said with a bit of disgust in his tone.

"What about you?" Cheng Che asked with a smile.

"I myself am very beautiful."

Wen Song giggled, leaned her head on his shoulder, and said half seriously and half jokingly: "Smoking is not allowed, I don't like boys who smoke. Drinking is also best not to happen, I can't accept my boyfriend smelling of alcohol."

Cheng Che laughed after hearing her words, touched her head and said, "But it seems that someone does all these things by himself."

"I am such a double-standard person. What should I do? Don't you love me anymore?" Perhaps because they were too familiar with each other, Wen Song no longer had any disguise or scruples in front of Cheng Che.

In front of him, she would occasionally act coquettishly, throw tantrums, and reveal her childish side in front of him.

"What if I say I don't love you anymore?" Cheng Che looked at her and felt like joking. When did she become such a childish person?

After hearing what he said, Wen Song smiled faintly, turned his head and said to the side: "Then let's break up. I don't like to force it."

"I lied to you!"

When Cheng Che heard her words, he realized that he might have been joking too much. He immediately hugged Wen Song tightly in his arms, lowered his head and kissed her on the lips again and again, and said coquettishly: "Sister, I just wanted to play a joke on you. I will not stop loving you, absolutely not. Let's not separate, okay? We absolutely cannot separate."

Wen Song looked at him seriously and said, "Ah Che, if one day you really don't love me anymore, you can break up with me. This is your right. I also know that I don't have a good personality. After a long time, you may not be able to tolerate me."

"Who said you have a bad personality? You have a good personality." Cheng Che continued to hug her and said, "Baby, I really am talking nonsense. How could I not love you?"

After the sun sank below the horizon, only a crescent moon remained high in the sky. The bright moonlight spread across the earth, making the Gobi Desert look even more desolate. There was silence all around, so quiet that they could clearly hear each other's heartbeats.

"If the moon wasn't the Earth, then we would really be on the moon right now."

Wen Song joked, resting his head on Cheng Che's shoulder, holding his fingers tightly, and quietly looking at the crescent moon in the sky.

"It's okay." Cheng Che put his arm around her shoulders and said softly, "You are my moon."

"Why?" Wen Song looked up at him in confusion and blinked, "You mean I'm your moon? Maybe more accurate, satellite?"

After listening to her, Cheng Che flicked her forehead lightly and said with a smile: "Little idiot, I mean, you are my white moonlight."

After listening to him, Wen Song shook his head and said to him, "I don't understand why in the Chinese context, lovers or people you yearn for are referred to as white moonlight. The moon is the satellite of the earth. It is obvious that the moon is constantly orbiting the earth and is tidal locked.

When we study satellites, we don’t write moon or Luna, but Earth I. So if we really want to express this meaning, shouldn’t we say, “you are my sun?”

"Baby, okay, you are my sun." Cheng Che was speechless, but he felt that Wen Song's logic was so perfect that he couldn't even find a reason to refute it.

"But can you be a little more romantic!!!" Cheng Che hugged her tightly in his arms and started to act like a spoiled child, "It's always like this, it's not romantic at all, baby, can you give some of your IQ to your EQ?"

"I'm not romantic?" Wen Song looked at him in feigned anger, jumped off the rock, turned around and left, "Okay, then go find someone who is romantic."

Cheng Che immediately jumped off the rock and ran to Wen Song to stop her. He held her in his arms and said, "I was just kidding. Please don't be angry, sister. Besides, you are night blind. There are no street lights here. It will be dark soon. Where are you going?"

Wen Song didn't say anything, but just gently reached out and hugged him, leaning on his shoulder.

After a while, he heard a low laugh. Cheng Che realized that she was just joking. He smiled and hugged her tighter, saying angrily, "You said I was a bad boy. You are the bad one, bad woman."

Wen Song raised his head, smiled, tiptoed and kissed his chin, and said to him: "Get in the car, I'll take you to a romantic place."